Re: [expert] CD-RW UDF?

2000-04-17 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
vern wrote: Hello all, I just spent the afternoon hunting up all the infos, HOWTO's and man pages that weren't installed on my initial installation. Spent quite a time with the CDROM,CD-R HOWTO's. That left me with another question or two. I can read CD's CD-R's, but no CD-RW's does

Re: [expert] More Serial Null modem Problems.

2000-04-17 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Sean Armstrong wrote: Ok. I took everyones advice and added the IP addresses 198.20.0.1 and 198.20.0.2 to the host files of both computers. One address for one computer and the other IP for the other computer. I used the following command on the each computer: pppd -detach crtscts lock local

Re: [expert] setting eth1 to 10mb

2000-04-17 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
"Ronald J. Yacketta" wrote: its an non-routed ip weather I use a class A/B/C does not matter :) as long as it works It's not working, is it? Class A networks are not worth the misery they inevitably cause. I could use the Class C non-routed but heck 10.100.100.??? is faster and easier to

Re: [expert] Stop using kdm

2000-04-17 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Matt Stegman wrote: No, startx does not start kdm. startx will start X, and load kde by default, or another window manager - you can use any of several tools to change this. Qué? In Mandrake, startx gives you kdm. -Stephen-

Re: [expert] Mandrake sub-optimized for i686?

2000-04-17 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Linda Walsh wrote: Found this interesting bit of trivia in the glibc library source: i686 more Implies # Due to the reordering and the oher nifty extensions in the i686 it is # not really good to use heavily i586 optimized code on a i686. It's # better to use i486/i386 code. Under

Re: [expert] Stop using kdm

2000-04-17 Thread Mike Corbeil
Stephen F. Bosch wrote: Matt Stegman wrote: No, startx does not start kdm. startx will start X, and load kde by default, or another window manager - you can use any of several tools to change this. Qué? In Mandrake, startx gives you kdm. -Stephen- The relationship is indirect.

Re: [expert] Apache 1.3.12.tar.gz so what next

2000-04-17 Thread Orlando Lewis
Thanks, I heard that there are some security concerns with the Frontpage extensions. Does anyone know what they are and if so, have they been fixed? Go to http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3, you will find Apache 1.3.12 fully optimized with the SGI patches, as well as the new

Re: [expert] Unzipping a file

2000-04-17 Thread Mike Corbeil
Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: Mike Corbeil wrote: Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: In the vain hope of forestalling a number of "you moron" followups, I will point out that I saw the recent posting explaining that there's a "y" option that does exactly this. In my defense, it's

Re: [expert] IP Masquerading, The ABCs of

2000-04-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 05:13:38PM -0400, Stephen F. Bosch wrote: - "Eric L. Brine" wrote: - - Even if masquerading works in this situation, you STILL have packets - with 192.168.0 headers going out onto the local subnet, and if your ISP - notices this, you're going to get your wrists

Re: [expert] Re: The right way to do a private network

2000-04-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 12:51:54AM -0400, Eric L. Brine wrote: - - Thank you as well from me..I just joined the list two days a go and - missed some of the postings. I just bought the hub last week, got the - linux machine working, and had no idea of the implications. - - Check the

Re: [expert] Re: The right way to do a private network

2000-04-17 Thread Eric L. Brine
One comment here. You should be using an "experimental" network per RFC 1597, not just any old network. There is a legal Class A network, one or more legal Class B networks, and there are several legal Class C networks. I don't recall offhand the legal class A network, but I don't think it

Re: [expert] Troubles With Partitions

2000-04-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 08:10:50PM -0500, Matt Stegman wrote: - On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Charles Curley wrote: - Mess-DOS uses FAT-16, not FAT-32, so it is limited to a partition of 2 - GB. NT 4 with no SPs also has this problem for FAT partitions. As far as I - know, there is no SP for NT 4 that

Re: [expert] Stop using kdm

2000-04-17 Thread Mike Corbeil
Ken Archer wrote: When I installed 7.0 I set it up to go directly to X using "kdm". On a single user machine, however, I prefer to use "guichooser" to choose my window manager. Question is how do I stop it from using kdm and go to a console? If I set it to go to init3 and then use startx,

RE: [expert] TV Cards

2000-04-17 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
I have a Hauppaggue Win TV w/radio. I use KDE and I like KwinTV real well. Wish I could get "Real" full screen though. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) -Original Message- From: Wayne Petherick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 12:09

Re: [expert] Frontpage extensions

2000-04-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, you wrote: I asked my ISP why he added the FP to hhe server? Apparently the FP pages will look fine but with the extensions in the server, SSI's don't work. Ummyeah...but you can always use OTHER "secure" connections ANY M$-specific stuff won't work without

Re: [expert] Re: The right way to do a private network

2000-04-17 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
"Eric L. Brine" wrote: One comment here. You should be using an "experimental" network per RFC 1597, not just any old network. There is a legal Class A network, one or more legal Class B networks, and there are several legal Class C networks. I don't recall offhand the legal class A

[expert] Network card causes modem to disappear

2000-04-17 Thread D. R. Evans
I've tried to post this several times already over the course of the past few days, but I have seen nothing appear on the reflector. Haven't received any bounce messages either, so I don't know where the messages think they've been going. Anyway, apologies if you've seen this before. - A

Re: [expert] Frontpage extensions

2000-04-17 Thread Pj
Not sure I understand, John. M$ (plain vanilla) HTML worked okay before FP. I think I probably wrote what Scott said wrong. He said that SSI's, like counters, won't display properly in an FP page without the FP stuff in his server too. He runs Apache. FWIW, I noticed when I ftp'd to the new

[expert] Evil FP file

2000-04-17 Thread Pj
Someone at M$ engineered a hidden back door in FP that allows access to net servers. This story lists the specific file to remove. http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,2171,3_341451,00.html Pj

Re: [expert] LILO problem

2000-04-17 Thread Kirk McElhearn
On 16/04/00 23:11, Andrew George [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: /boot/vmlinuz is a symlink to the real kernel file, I noticed both your linux distributons in LILO.conf pointed to it so I was wondering if the symlink had been removed somehow so lilo didn't know where to find the

Re: [expert] LILO problem

2000-04-17 Thread Kirk McElhearn
I'm really getting fed up with this problem. So many people said it was so easy to use a big HD and boot more than one distribution, I wish there were some way to figure out why it won't work for me I just tried something - I have a Mandrake boot floppy, and I figured that maybe I could

Re: [expert] setting eth1 to 10mb

2000-04-17 Thread Bug Hunter
could you possibly be plugged into the uplink port? I've seen much the same symptoms. On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Ronald J. Yacketta wrote: True, but I am getting a but load of collisions on my hub between my win2k and linux box for some reason it appears not to be autodetecting. the

Re: [expert] Mandrake sub-optimized for i686?

2000-04-17 Thread Linda Walsh
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: Found this interesting bit of trivia in the glibc library source: i686 more Implies # Due to the reordering and the oher nifty extensions in the i686 it is # not really good to use heavily i586 optimized code on a i686. It's # better

Re: [expert] OT: Perfect operating system

2000-04-17 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Brian T. Schellenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Sorry, I know it's off-topic *and* it's dead, but it's not all *that* off-topic. As I said, I rather liked AmigaDOS; it's connection with Unix is that it was based on the BCPL language, which was a sibling of the C language on

[expert] apache help needed!!!

2000-04-17 Thread Vincent Danen
I'm having some serious problems with apache and they just started today... In my error_log file I keep getting: httpd: exec of /bin/sh failed, reason: Permission denied (errno = 13) In a SSI file (banner.shtml). It won't run any of my other CGI scripts either, nor will PHP include statements

Re: [expert] Frontpage extensions

2000-04-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, you wrote: Not sure I understand, John. M$ (plain vanilla) HTML worked okay before FP. I think I probably wrote what Scott said wrong. He said that SSI's, like counters, won't display properly in an FP page without the FP stuff in his server too. He runs Apache. FWIW, I

Re: [expert] Re: The right way to do a private network

2000-04-17 Thread Daniel Woods
Assuming your ISP is providing you with only a single IP address, you want something along these lines: ++ | Comp B |---\+---+ ++\---| H | ++ +---+ | u |--| Comp A |-| Modem | ++/---| b | ++

Re: [expert] IP Masquerading, The ABCs of

2000-04-17 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Charles Curley wrote: - Ultimately the ISP has to block these packets at their routers, or they - get into trouble, so it's not a huge problem -- but all you need is for - two people on the same subnet to make the same mistake, and you've got - trouble. No, read the extract from the RFC

RE: [expert] setting eth1 to 10mb

2000-04-17 Thread james.fogg
I haven't followed all your thread, but check the following Cable length: no segment over 300 feet (for UTP 10/100baseT cabling) or over 600 feet for 10base2 cabling (coax or thinnet). Remember the 543 Ethernet rule (max 5 segments, max 4 repeaters (hubs and media converters are repeaters

Re: [expert] Stop using kdm

2000-04-17 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: Matt Stegman wrote: No, startx does not start kdm. startx will start X, and load kde by default, or another window manager - you can use any of several tools to change this. Qué? In Mandrake, startx gives you kdm. No, it doesn't. -- "Brian, the man from

Re: [expert] Network card causes modem to disappear

2000-04-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, you wrote: The modem is on IRQ 10, and the network card is on IRQ5. The I/O addresses are also nicely different. IRQ10 would seem to indicate a WinModem. Are you SURE it's not a WinModem? If it is, you will ALWAYS have trouble accessing it, even if it *appears* to be

[expert] Dependency Help!!

2000-04-17 Thread Orlando Lewis
Where can I find the following dependencies and/or what packages do they come with? I am using RH 6.1 libstdc++_libc6.1-2.so.0 libcrypto.so.0 TIA

Re: [expert] Re: The right way to do a private network

2000-04-17 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Jean-Louis Debert wrote: "Eric L. Brine" wrote: One comment here. You should be using an "experimental" network per RFC 1597, not just any old network. There is a legal Class A network, one or more legal Class B networks, and there are several legal Class C networks. I don't recall

Re: [expert] Dependency Help!!

2000-04-17 Thread Mike Corbeil
Orlando Lewis wrote: Where can I find the following dependencies and/or what packages do they come with? I am using RH 6.1 libstdc++_libc6.1-2.so.0 libcrypto.so.0 TIA That's a good question as far I'm concerned, because I'm also getting problems due to these as well as others, like

Re: [expert] Stop using kdm

2000-04-17 Thread Mike Corbeil
Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: "Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: Matt Stegman wrote: No, startx does not start kdm. startx will start X, and load kde by default, or another window manager - you can use any of several tools to change this. Qué? In Mandrake, startx gives you kdm.

Re: [expert] Frontpage extensions

2000-04-17 Thread Pj
John, Can you lend a hand, please? Scott runs Apache under FreeBSD. I don't understand *serverspeak*. Scott is paraplegic so physical tinkering with the sys is not possible by him. I asked him if he would dump FP if there was a viable workaround. He said in a second if the solution was

Re: [expert] LILO problem

2000-04-17 Thread Mike Corbeil
Kirk McElhearn wrote: I'm really getting fed up with this problem. So many people said it was so easy to use a big HD and boot more than one distribution, I wish there were some way to figure out why it won't work for me I just tried something - I have a Mandrake boot floppy, and I

Re: [expert] LILO problem

2000-04-17 Thread Mike Corbeil
Kirk McElhearn wrote: On 16/04/00 23:11, Andrew George [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: /boot/vmlinuz is a symlink to the real kernel file, I noticed both your linux distributons in LILO.conf pointed to it so I was wondering if the symlink had been removed somehow so lilo didn't

[expert] problems in loading libneswt.so.50

2000-04-17 Thread Hans Schneidhofer
hi have trouble in loading libnewt.so.50 during startup. But libnewt.so.50 IS installed. The results of this circumstances is, after calling DrakConf I only see the old fashions of linuxcond, or only some masks appear. Is anybody there, who could explain me, how I can solve that bug ? The

Re: [expert] RPC-program not registered

2000-04-17 Thread Hans Schneidhofer
hi Ron and the mandrake-linux-community, have resolved the problem : rpc:program not registered portmap, nfs-utils and nfs-utils-clients was succesfully installed during update and/or install-process. But one of the bad bags, which has happend, was : nfs have been deactivated during

Re: [expert] Samba Printing

2000-04-17 Thread Chunnuan Chen
By default (i.e., you don't choose any filter for the samba printer), printtool will use /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/smbprint, which uses smbclient to connect to the remote samba printer. You may need to debug this file a little bit to see if it does communicate well with the windows

RE: [expert] TV Cards

2000-04-17 Thread Christopher Quale
I switched to xawtv (from kwintv) as it is a bit more stable than kwintv, almost everything has a keyboard shortcut and true fullscreen works quite well (Ctl - alt - - to get to a lower resolution, then the F key in xawtv switches to fullscreen mode). I'm using a plain vanilla Hauppauge WinTV

Re: [expert] Network card causes modem to disappear

2000-04-17 Thread D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 17 Apr 00, at 11:44, John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, you wrote: The modem is on IRQ 10, and the network card is on IRQ5. The I/O addresses are also nicely different. IRQ10 would seem to indicate a WinModem. Are you SURE it's not a

RE: [expert] Intel Chip Types (was) Mandrake sub-optimized for i686?

2000-04-17 Thread james.fogg
OK... so the 786 is the PII and the 886 is the PIII. If the 586 is the original Pentium, where does the 686 come in? Is that the MMX-enabled series? I am getting ready to compile some kernels and I am curious. BTW.. I have two machines that identify as -S model CPU-s (P133-S and P166-S). I think

[expert] nfs problem

2000-04-17 Thread Matthew Singer
I'm running 7.0 on several systems. I've got a Pentium III 700 with an Intel 82558 ethernet controller. The EEPRO100 driver comes up with it fine and ftp/telnet etc are all ok. But when I nfs mount a volume on this system from a server and then copy a file from the nfs server to the system, I

Re: [expert] Re: The right way to do a private network

2000-04-17 Thread Daniel Woods
Jean-Louis Debert wrote: "Eric L. Brine" wrote: One comment here. You should be using an "experimental" network per RFC 1597, not just any old network. There is a legal Class A network, one or more legal Class B networks, and there are several legal Class C networks. I don't

Re: [expert] Stop using kdm

2000-04-17 Thread Mike Corbeil
Stephen F. Bosch wrote: Mike Corbeil wrote: Stephen F. Bosch wrote: Matt Stegman wrote: No, startx does not start kdm. startx will start X, and load kde by default, or another window manager - you can use any of several tools to change this. Qué? In Mandrake,

Re: [expert] OT: Perfect operating system

2000-04-17 Thread Vic
I used to use an old version of unix that ran on ( if I remember correctly) a "century 2100" or something like that, it loaded the os with a cassette, hehehe and the disc cartridges were 15-20 inches in diameter, whew! You had to press 'halt' then 'run' then 'load'. proprietary buttons on the

[expert] vmware and cable modem IP assignment

2000-04-17 Thread Daniel Woods
I am not getting much help on this from vmware folks. Although someone here might have run into the same problem given all this talk with private network and IP Masq. I have VMware working fine at work such that I can open up a linux or win9x guest OS and either of them *and* the host can

Re: [expert] apache help needed!!!

2000-04-17 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
It looks like a SuExec problem. Either remove apache-suexec or chown nobody.nobody these files. Give me some news! Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Vincent Danen wrote: Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:13:09 -0600 (MDT) From: Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To:

Re: [expert] Dependency Help!!

2000-04-17 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
libcrypto comes from openssl, and libstdc++ comes from libstdc++, of course =) Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Orlando Lewis wrote: Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 13:33:50 -0400 From: Orlando Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] boot error

2000-04-17 Thread Fabio Rossi
Dear all, every time I boot my linux I've got this error message and I do not know where it cames from: Checking for new hardware /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S05kudzu: line 46 : 156 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/kudzu -t 30 Does anybody has anxplanation ??? Thanks in advance Fabio

Re: [expert] vmware and cable modem IP assignment

2000-04-17 Thread Bug Hunter
You only have one ip address through your cable modem. Therefore, you can't use 2 ip addresses on your machine that are in the same ip addressing scheme as the cable modem ip address. Enable masquerading, and give yourself a 10.0.0.x or a 172.16.1.x or a 192.168.1.x address pool. Then

Re: [expert] Troubles With Partitions

2000-04-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 11:24:29AM -0400, Stephen F. Bosch wrote: - Charles Curley wrote: - - - The NTFS driver works fine in Linux. The _read_ driver, that is. I - - haven't tried the 2.3 writeable driver. It's marked *DANGEROUS* in the - - kernel config, though, so don't use it on any

Re: [expert] Re: The right way to do a private network

2000-04-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 10:37:04AM -0600, Daniel Woods wrote: - - Assuming your ISP is providing you with only a single IP address, you want - something along these lines: - - ++ - | Comp B |---\+---+ - ++\---| H | ++ +---+ -

Re: [expert] apache help needed!!!

2000-04-17 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Jean-Michel Dault wrote: It looks like a SuExec problem. Either remove apache-suexec or chown nobody.nobody these files. Tried chowning them, didn't work. Same error. Tried removing apache-suexec and I get the same thing. Even restarted apache, same deal. I did notice

Re: [expert] Network card causes modem to disappear

2000-04-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, you wrote: As I understand it, the modem gets configured to IRQ 10 during power-on by the PCI gubbins, so there's no way to control that. It's a PCI modem??? Do this...go look and make SURE you don't have to add any extra software for it to work under Windows. Have you

RE: [expert] Intel Chip Types (was) Mandrake sub-optimized for i6 86?

2000-04-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, you wrote: OK... so the 786 is the PII and the 886 is the PIII. If the 586 is the original Pentium, where does the 686 come in? Is that the MMX-enabled series? I am getting ready to compile some kernels and I am curious. 686 == Pentium Pro. John

Re: [expert] RPC-program not registered

2000-04-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 02:30:18PM +0200, Hans Schneidhofer wrote: - hi Ron - and the mandrake-linux-community, - - have resolved the problem : rpc:program not registered - - portmap, nfs-utils and nfs-utils-clients was succesfully installed during - update and/or install-process. But one of

Re: [expert] apache help needed!!!

2000-04-17 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
Vincent, can you send me your httpd.conf and the files that you are having problem with? It's really a strange bug, it must be such a small minor detail... Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Vincent Danen wrote: Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 13:42:30 -0600 (MDT) From:

Re: [expert] apache help needed!!!

2000-04-17 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
I have these permissions for bash: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 16 10:17 /bin/sh - /bin/bash* And nobody has these settings: nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/: Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Vincent Danen wrote: Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:23:00 -0600 (MDT) From: